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Aerospace Structures
Engineering & Social Sciences Program
Madrid, Spain
Dates: early Sep 2025 - mid Dec 2025
Aerospace Structures
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Location: Madrid, Spain
Primary Subject Area: Aerospace Engineering
Instruction in: English
Course Code: 15341
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 300
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 42
Prerequisites: We strongly advise you not to take this course if you have not passed Physics I , Introduction to Mechanics of Flight and Introduction to structural analysis.
DESCRIPTION
Chapter 1. Structures in the aerospace and aeronautical sector
Subject 1. Structural description of the aircraft
1.1 Loads on aircraft structures
1.2 Function of structural components
1.3 Wing structure
1.4 Fuselage structure
1.5 Stabilizers structure
1.6 Helicopter structure
Subject 2. Structures in the aeronautical sector
2.1 Frame and truss structures
2.2 Space structures
2.3. Future trends
Chapter 2. Bending, shear and torsion of thin-walled beams
Subject 3 and 4. Bending and shear of open and closed, thin-walled beams
3.1 Kinematic hypothesis
3.2 Shear of open section beams
3.3 Shear of closed section beams
3.4 Shear centre
Subject 5. Torsion of beams
5.1 Torsion of closed section beams
5.2 Torsion of open section beams
Subject 6. Torsion on multiple-cell thin-walled beams
6.1 Torsion of multiple-cell closed section beams
6.2 Torsion of multiple-cell open section beams
Chapter 3. Plates and Shells
Subject 7 and 8. Bending of thin plates
7. 1 Kinematic
7.2 Plates subjected to a distributed transverse loads
7.3 Plates subjected to bending and twisting
Subject 9 and 10. Shells
9.1 Hypotheses
9.2 Thin shells subjected to in-plane loads
9.3 Thin shells subjected to bending loads
Chapter 4. Laminate and sandwich structures
Subject 11. Theory of laminate
11.1 Kinematic
11.2 Orthotropic constitutive equations
11.3 Classical and first-order theories of laminate composites
11.4 Failure criteria
Subject 12. Composite beams and plates
12.1 Composite beams subjected to bending
12.2 Composite thin-walled cross-section beams
12.3 Bending of composite plates
Subject 13. Sandwich structures
13.1 Basic sandwich theory
13.2 Sandwich beams
13.3 Sandwich plates
Subject 1. Structural description of the aircraft
1.1 Loads on aircraft structures
1.2 Function of structural components
1.3 Wing structure
1.4 Fuselage structure
1.5 Stabilizers structure
1.6 Helicopter structure
Subject 2. Structures in the aeronautical sector
2.1 Frame and truss structures
2.2 Space structures
2.3. Future trends
Chapter 2. Bending, shear and torsion of thin-walled beams
Subject 3 and 4. Bending and shear of open and closed, thin-walled beams
3.1 Kinematic hypothesis
3.2 Shear of open section beams
3.3 Shear of closed section beams
3.4 Shear centre
Subject 5. Torsion of beams
5.1 Torsion of closed section beams
5.2 Torsion of open section beams
Subject 6. Torsion on multiple-cell thin-walled beams
6.1 Torsion of multiple-cell closed section beams
6.2 Torsion of multiple-cell open section beams
Chapter 3. Plates and Shells
Subject 7 and 8. Bending of thin plates
7. 1 Kinematic
7.2 Plates subjected to a distributed transverse loads
7.3 Plates subjected to bending and twisting
Subject 9 and 10. Shells
9.1 Hypotheses
9.2 Thin shells subjected to in-plane loads
9.3 Thin shells subjected to bending loads
Chapter 4. Laminate and sandwich structures
Subject 11. Theory of laminate
11.1 Kinematic
11.2 Orthotropic constitutive equations
11.3 Classical and first-order theories of laminate composites
11.4 Failure criteria
Subject 12. Composite beams and plates
12.1 Composite beams subjected to bending
12.2 Composite thin-walled cross-section beams
12.3 Bending of composite plates
Subject 13. Sandwich structures
13.1 Basic sandwich theory
13.2 Sandwich beams
13.3 Sandwich plates